Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Those Dump-Trump Republicans Are Chattering Again

There's an ever-so-faint Cruz boomlet out there. (Just whispers, really.)

June 7, 2016 at 5:13 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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Washington Republicans, panicky over the prospect of Donald Trump as their nominee, are discussing ways to dump him with Ted Cruz the most likely alternative. They're probably tilting at windmills.

These discussions haven't involved the highest levels of the party: House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and party chair Reince Priebus. And even the most zealous anti-Trump Republicans, who include prominent strategists, lawyers and elected officials, acknowledge that the latest dump-Trump conversation doesn't have a much better chance to prevail than previous efforts that failed.